Improvement in washing-machines



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` Washing-Machines.. vN050 470. Y Patented Mar)l 5,1874.

Fincao PATENT STEPHEN GOHO, OF SHE-NANDOAH,PENNSYLVANIA.

t IMPROVEMENT IN wAsHlNG-MAcl-HNES.'

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,470, dated May 5, 1874; application filed March 25, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN Gorro, of Shenandoah, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing- Machines, of which the following is a specilication:

lhis invention relates to that class of wasliing-machines which are formed by the combination of a concave or bed of uted rollers With an endless apron and large luted cylinder or roller; and it has for its object to improve upon the machines of this description in order to render the Washin g operation more perfect and simple. The invention consists in the combination, with a bed of fluted rollers and large fluted cylinder and spring arms, the

lends of which bear upon the journals of the latter, of an endless apron made of an open- Work material or netting, in contradistinction to a flexible apron of canvas, rubber, or other similar material, the object of said netting being to feed the clothes to be washed to the action of the lluted cylinder, and to present the same in such' a manner as to permit the ready and perfect passage of Water through V the netting,'which is not possible When a can- Ybed-frame offluted or corrugated rollers, B, which are journaled in side bars o1' frames C,

so as to permit the rollers to revolve independently of each other, and above said rollers there is located a large fluted cylinder or roller, D, having journals which turn in boxes or slotted bearings in the sides of the suds-box, and one of said journals is provided With a hand-crank, a, for turning the cylinder. The central rollers of the bed-frame, or those arranged immediately beneath the iiuted cylinder, are disposed in a concave line, so as to conform to the periphery of the cylinder. E represents an endless apron made of cordage or rubber bands, which are arranged in such relation to each other as to form an open netting of longitudinal and transverse interlaced cords or bands, the meshes of which are made sufficiently large to permit the ready passage of water through the same. The longitudinal strands or cords of the netting or apron t and move in circumferential grooves or channels G of the bed-rollers, so as to properly guide the movement of the netting, and to prevent the same from being displaced laterally during the Washin g operation. The clothes to be Washed are fed to the fluted cylinder and properly presented to the same by means' of the apron, and by turning the cylinder alternately in opposite directions the clothes are continually turned to expose every portion to the action of the cylinder and bed-rollers.

The advantages derived by using a net-Work apron are attributable to the `fact that the Water is permitted to ow or circulate freely through the meshes of the same, so as to rinse and cleanse the clothes in a more perfect and expeditious manner, which is not the case when an apron of canvas or other close texture is employed, as the Water cannot pass freely and in quantities sufficiently large through such an apron in order to produce the desired result; and, further, by the employment of a netting composed of longitudinal and transverse cords, the end rollers only require to be grooved for the two outside longitudinal cords, and the cross-cords Will retain all the longitudinal cords in position and prevent a lateral movement of the same, and confining all at an equal distance apart.

The proper pressure is exerted upon the luted cylinder by means of the spring-arms H secured to the suds-box, and the free ends of which bear upon the journals of the cylinder in such a manner as to permit the same to rise and fall automatically to conform to the inequalities `of the clothes passing between the cylinder.

The bed-frame of rollers is detachably secured to the suds-box by means of screws passing through the sides of the same, and thus provision is made for readily removing the roller-frame in order to cleanse the snds-box and to permit the old rollers to be'replaced by neW ones. The side bars of the roller-frame may be curved in order to permit the same to be itted into an ordinary circular Wash-tub.

If deemed sufficient, only the end rollers'ofV the bed-frame may be grooved for guiding theY netting-apron, the intermediate rollers being then luted throughout their entire length.

NVhat I claim is- Ihe spring-arms H and driving fluted roller D, in combination with the apron E and the concave bed of rollers B, journaled in the removable side frames G C5 in the manner and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I Vhave hereunto set my hand this 25th day of Witnesses:

WM. J. PEYTON, J AMES L. NoRRIs. 

